Oboe Quartet

An Oboe quartet is a composition for oboe and three other instruments, usually a string trio. While the genre is not very common, Mozart wrote the most well known, his Oboe Quartet, K. 370. Other composers of oboe quartets include Johann Christian Bach, Franz Krommer and Colin Matthews.


Members of the oboe family

Instruments

  • Piccolo oboe
  • Piccolo heckelphone
  • Oboe
  • Baroque oboe
  • Oboe d'amore
  • Cor anglais (English horn)
  • Oboe da caccia
  • Bass oboe
  • Heckelphone
  • Lupophon
  • Contrabass oboe

Ensembles & genres

  • Oboe quartet
  • Oboe quintet